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Politico recently reported on a confidential draft of a proposed AI safety bill from Anthropic, the company behind Claude LLMs (via Tom's Hardware). The bill, which has been pitched to US lawmakers, would let the government crack down on a given AI model "only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. The risk...
Critical Hit(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle.I have not played Hades 2 since October 4 of 2025. That's not because I "fell out of love" with the game or whatever, I simply plugged 65 hours into it, beat the 'main story',...
We are drowning in shit. Steam Next Fest, which kicks off tomorrow, currently has 8,011 matches on its press preview landing page. That's roughly double the amount of demos featured in Steam's June 2026 Next Fest. In June 2022, Next Fest boasted just over a thousand demos.The vast majority of these demos will be meritless slop. And I daresay many of them—though I have no way to confirm—didn't exist as...
Play This Right NowWelcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame happening direct to your inbox every Thursday.I'm standing on top of a flying fortress hundreds of...
Disk Cleanup(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never uninstall?"Joe Ziegler might be best known for his role guiding the design of big competitive shooters, but his formative gaming experiences were with point-and-click adventures...
Los Santos CustomsI'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.World War 2 Canadian air force pilot John Gillespie Magee Jr once wrote, in his poem High Flight:Oh! I have slipped...
In my past life as a console gamer, I was wary of any controller not bundled in with my first-party hardware. These days though, there are lots of excellent PC gamepad options—particularly in the budget category—but how cheap is too cheap?Our current pick for the best PC controller that won't hurt your wallet is the GameSir Nova Lite. This costs comfortably under $30 on a good day, but how low...
Good news: I know of the existence of two entire pallets worth of RTX 5090 graphics cards—a rare thing in this day and age, as stock appears to have dwindled to virtually zero. Bad news, they've 'gone missing' from a Brazilian airport.Brazilian electronics distributor Oderço has published an Instagram post drawing attention to the missing Zotac GPUs, which supposedly arrived at Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, but then promptly...
Viper | RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB | 16 GB DDR4: was $1399.99 now $1149.99There is a caveat to this deal. This machine is running just 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, and judging by the picture, it's just a single stick. However, you're getting an RTX 5060 Ti in here for not too far north of $1,000, which is better than I've seen at this price point for quite some...
The studio behind the Moonlighter series has announced it will no longer host a public playtest for its forthcoming roguelike due to fears it will be "reverse-engineered, cloned and published". The move comes as a surge in rapidly vibe coded clones floods Steam, Roblox and mobile app stores in the aftermath of Claude Opus 5.5."With launch still months away, sharing a build with tens of thousands of players feels like...